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Mina Kobayashi
is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the alternate on the FORTIUS curling team, which is skipped by Sayaka Yoshimura. At the international level, she represented Japan at the 2019 World Mixed Curling Championship and the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, winning silver in the mixed team competition. Career Kobayashi competed in her first Japan Curling Championships during the 2017–18 season as third for the Sapporo CA team. Her team, with skip Momoka Iwase, second Midori Sugasawa, lead Mao Hino and alternate Suzune Yasui finished seventh with a 2–6 record, only defeating Nayoro Association and Team Hiroshima. Kobayashi and her teammates were unable to return to the national championship the following year. In 2019, Kobayashi was selected to play lead on the Japanese team for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. The team also included skip Takumi Maeda, third Momoha Tabata and second Asei Nakahara. In preparation for the event, the team represented Japan at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling At The 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Curling at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics took place at the Palladium de Champéry in Champéry, Switzerland from 10 to 22 January 2020. The curling competition has been expanded, to allow for a further eight mixed teams to qualify, meaning a total of 96 curlers from 24 nations qualified to compete. Medal summary Medal table Events 2020-01-16 Curling at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed Team – Medal Ceremony (Martin Rulsch) 46.jpg, Mixed Team Medal Ceremony (from left to right): Japan, Norway, Russia 2020-01-22 Curling at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed Doubles – Victory Ceremony (Martin Rulsch) 054.jpg, Mixed Doubles Medal Ceremony (from left to right): Chana Beitone, Nikolai Lysakov (silver); Laura Nagy, Nathan Young (gold); Pei Junhang, Vít Chabičovský (bronze) Qualification A total of 24 countries qualified based on their placement points from various events. At the end of the qualification period, the top two North American, top three Asian and top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mao Hino
Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he led as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism. Mao was the son of a prosperous peasant in Shaoshan, Hunan. He supported Chinese nationalism and had an anti-imperialist outlook early in his life, and was particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. He later adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University as a librarian and became a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927. During the Chinese Civil War be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chubu Electric Power
, abbreviated as Chuden in Japanese, is a Japanese electric utilities provider for the middle Chūbu region of the Honshu island of Japan. It provides electricity at 60 Hz, though an area of Nagano Prefecture uses 50 Hz. Chubu Electric Power ranks third among Japan's largest electric utilities in terms of power generation capacity, electric energy sold, and annual revenue. It is also one of Nagoya's "four influential companies" along with Meitetsu, Matsuzakaya, and Toho Gas. Recently, the company has also expanded into the business of optical fibers. On January 1, 2006, a new company, Chubu Telecommunications, was formed. Recent news In May 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan requested that the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant, which sits in an area considered overdue for a large earthquake, be shut down, after which Chubu Electric Power suspended operations at the plant. A lawsuit seeking the decommissioning of the reactors at the Hamaoka plant permanently has been filed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Japan Curling Championships
The 2022 Japan Curling Championships (branded as the 39th Zen-Noh Japan Curling Championships) were held from May 22 to 29 at the Tokoro Curling Club in Tokoro, Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan. Both the men's and women's events were played in a round robin format which qualified four teams for a page playoff. Because of the 2022 Winter Olympics, a World Championship Trial was held in December 2021 between three teams on the men's and women's sides to determine Japan's representatives for the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship and 2022 World Women's Curling Championship. Due to this, the Japan Curling Championships were pushed back later into the year. Instead of the winners qualifying for the upcoming World Championships like usual, the winners of the 2022 Japan Curling Championships qualified as the Japanese representatives for the new Pan Continental Curling Championships. Summary On the men's side, SC Karuizawa Club won their first national championship since the team disban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yumie Funayama
is a Japanese curler, born April 5, 1978, in Tokoro, Hokkaido as . She is currently the coach of Sayaka Yoshimura's team from Sapporo, Hokkaido. Career At age 12, Funayama began curling in her hometown Tokoro, Hokkaido, joining Akiko Katoh's junior team together with Ayumi Ogasawara (then Onodera). Funayama mainly played third for the Katoh team. The team represented Japan at four World Junior Curling Championships (1996, 1997, 1998 & 1999), winning a silver medal in 1998 and another silver in 1999. The team later represented Japan at the 2002 Winter Olympics, finishing in 8th place with a 2–7 record. After the 2001-2002 season, Funayama moved from Hokkaido to Aomori and formed a new team with her then-teammate Ayumi Ogasawara (then Onodera), who became the skip of the new team. The team represented Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where Funayama played third and Japan finished 7th with a 4–5 record, including a surprise win over one of the usual curling powerhouses, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokkaido Bank
is a Japanese bank that is headquartered in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. The Hokkaido Bank is a subsidiary of the Hokuhoku Financial Group as a result of a merger with the Hokuriku Bank on September 1, 2004. The Hokkaido Bank has 134 domestic branches, with 131 of them in Hokkaidō, and one each in the Tohoku region, Tokyo, and Osaka. History The Hokkaido Bank was established on March 5, 1951 in Sapporo. In 1997, Hokkaido Bank entered into merger Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization. As an aspect ... talks with the embattled Hokkaido Takushoku Bank. However, these talks broke off and Hokkaido Takushoku Bank subsequently entered bankruptcy. On May 24, 2002, Hokkaido Bank and Hokuriku Bank agreed to business tie-ups. Approximately one year later on May 23, 2003, the banks agreed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused COVID-19 pandemic cases, more than cases and COVID-19 pandemic deaths, confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history, deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from Asymptomatic, undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, Nocturnal cough, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Junior Curling Championships
The World Junior Curling Championships are an annual curling bonspiel featuring the world's best curlers who are 21 years old or younger. The competitions for both men and women occur at the same venue. The men's tournament has occurred since 1975 and the women's since 1988. Since curling became an Olympic sport in 1998, the World Junior Curling Championship of the year preceding the Olympic Games have been held at the site of the curling tournament for the upcoming Games. The event has its origins in the International Junior Masters Bonspiel which began in 1968 and was held annually at the East York Curling Club. By 1973, the tournament began being called the International Junior Curling Championship and the World Junior Curling Championship in 1974, before being officially sanctioned in 1975. Qualification Teams qualify to participate in the World Junior Curling Championships through final rankings at the previous year's championships or through the World Junior B Curling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miku Nihira
__NOTOC__ Miku may refer to: People *Miku (みく), the vocalist for the Japanese rock band An Cafe *, member of the Japanese rock band Band-Maid *Miku Ishida (未来), Japanese teen idol *Miku Itō (美来), Japanese voice actress *Miku Kanemura (美玖), Japanese singer and model *Miku Koide (未来), Japanese water polo player *Miku Makita, Canadian ice dancer *, Japanese mixed martial artist *Miku Tanabe (生来), Japanese idol *Miku Tashiro (未来), Japanese judoka *The nickname of Venezuelan footballer Nicolás Ladislao Fedor Flores Fictional characters * , virtual singer * Miku Hinasaki (深紅), a character from the video game series ''Fatal Frame'' * Miku Nekobe (美紅), a character from the manga ''Midori Days'' * Miku Izayoi (誘宵 美九), a character in the ''Date a Live'' series * Miku Imamura (今村 みく), a character in the show ''Denji Sentai Megaranger'' * Miku Kohinata, a character in the show ''Senki Zesshou Symphogear'' * Miku (390), a character in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikoto Nakajima
is a unisex Japanese given name. It may refer to: *Female **Mikoto Urabe, a character in the anime "Nazo no Kanojo X" ** Mikoto Minagi, a character in the anime ''My-HiME'' **Mikoto Suo, a character in the manga and anime ''School Rumble'' ** Mikoto, a character in the game ''Samurai Showdown'' ** Mikoto, a villain in the anime/manga ''Flame of Recca'' **Mikoto Misaka, a character in the anime ''Toaru Majutsu no Index'' ** Mikoto, the Genome pseudo-sister to Zidane Tribal in ''Final Fantasy IX''. **Mikoto Uchiha, mother to Sasuke Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha, a character in the popular manga/anime series ''Naruto'' **Miko, a character in ''Demon Love Spell'' **Mikoto, a character in the video game " Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny" **Mikoto, the Queen of Hoshido, a character in ''Fire Emblem Fates'' **Yamato Mikoto, a character in ''Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?'' *Undefined **MEIKA Mikoto, a character representing a voicebank of the same name for the vocal synthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling At The 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed Doubles
Mixed doubles curling at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics was held from 18 to 22 January at the Palladium de Champéry in Champéry, Switzerland. Teams The teams will consist of athletes from the mixed team tournament, one boy and one girl from different NOCs. The teams will be selected by the organizing committee based on the final ranking from the mixed team competition in a way that balances out the teams. The players in each pair will then be allowed time to train together. Knockout Draw Bracket The event was held in a modified knockout, with all winners of the Round of 6, including the loser with the best Draw Shot Challenge (DSC), qualifying for the finals. Top half Middle Half Bottom half Ranking of Draw Shot Challenge Finals Knockout results All draw times are listed in Central European Time (UTC+01). Round of 48 Draw 1 ''Saturday, January 18, 10:00'' } Draw 2 ''Saturday, January 18, 14:00'' Draw 3 ''Saturday, January 18, 18:00'' Draw 4 ''Sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asei Nakahara
Avsey (russian: Авсе́й) is a Russian male first name.Petrovsky, p. 36 There are several theories as to its origins.Superanskaya, p. 30 According to one, it is simply a colloquial variant of the name Yevsey.Petrovsky, p. 36 Another possibility is that "Avsey", as well as Asey () and Osey (), are colloquial variants of the name Absey (), alternatively spelled Apsey (), which until the end of the 19th century was included into the official Synodal Menologium.Superanskaya, pp. 23 and 30 Finally, it is possible that "Avsey" derives from the Old East Slavic word or ( or ), meaning ''New Year's Eve'', which in ancient times corresponded to the first day of spring. The diminutive of "Avsey" is Avseyka (). The patronymics derived from "Avsey" are "" (Avseyevich; masculine) and its colloquial form "" (Avseich), and "" (Avseyevna; feminine). The patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
